20 Responses to “Printable NPC Damage Types Cheat Sheet v1.6”

Awesome chart, printing as we speak. But a bit of an adjustment… The countermeasure section lists “Tracking Disruptor” when this should say ECM. A trcking disruptor makes it harder for your turrets to track while ECM prevents you from locking anything. The recommended solution is correct, just the verbage is goofy.

my personal experience (and also many other sites indeed) seems show that the best dmg to deal to Serpentis is Kineti and not thermal.
Check this site for more info maybe: http://npc.elfarto.com/index.php

I have to argue about using kinetic sentries versus Serpentis though. It might be correct, that the lowest resistance is kinetic, with a 10% higher resistance to thermal damage on every single Serpentis NPC I could find that was in the database linked before. But telling us to use kinetic sentries is suboptimal, because drones have a fixed damage multiplier, and the Warden multiplier is lower than the one of the rest of the Caldari drones. That leads to a situation where Garde actually do more damage to Serpentis than Warden, as long as the kinetic resistance is lower than 60% (Doing exactly the same at 60%.) That being said, I did not find a single Serpentis ship in the database that has a kinetic resistance above 59% (or thermal more than 69% respectively just to make sure). Of course there are other things to decide, like Warden having higher range, but I believe that is not what your chart is about.

You don’t use acolyte. No not ever.
Against Angel you use minmatar drones and against everything else you use Gallente drones.
The damage projection from Amarr drones are sh… not good. (I think because of the tracking)
I am talking about small and medium, not sentries. I have no idea about heavies, probably the same as small/medium.

Hi o7, thanks for the link to the graph – I’ll shamelessly say that I understood everything you just told me 🙂

Your logic is sound, but I don’t know if changing the cheat sheet to reflect this would be a good idea. It’s also intended to demonstrate relations between damage types and races, so if I start mixing things up it will only confuse people. I’m open to suggestions though. I could add a “recommended” bar on the right with other drone suggestions for example.

well, I understand this Chart as quick reference for someone who changes stuff around a lot, like during mission-running. Therefore I personnaly would go as far as just show the best drones to use for which NPC type due to it’s resists.

If people are confused and seek explanation, because a drone falls out of the sheme, they have a place to to get them answeared. Although comparing stats of the light drones vs the sentry drones make it somewhat obvious, if you wanted you could make a footnote with the very short explanation to this matter on the Chart.

You could have, of course, decided to use the chart as reference of what is best to use against all the specifics of a given NPC type (like Speed, fighting range etc.). But this would be just another argument use Garde instead of Warden for Serpentis.

I will use this awesome looking chart as soon as I feel everything on it is correct. 😛

Eveuniversity says
Gallente drones for sheer damage output. Minmatar drones for speed and reasonable damage. Amarr and Caldari drones do not really have a role.
Gallente drones (which do thermal damage) will even outdamage other drones vs NPCs with weaknesses to other damage types (exception is against Angel NPCs).
Minmatar drones are good against Angels and a good option in pvp, since they are fast and can catch the enemy. Especially true for Warriors vs. interceptors and Valkyries vs. frigates in general.

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